Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-12
DISASTER To A YACHT.
A Number of Persons Drowned
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New YORK. July 1.-THE disaster 10
the yacht Mystery, which was upset oil
Barren island last evening, proves to be
as serious az at first reported. The
number of lives lost will not be less
than twenty-five and is likely to reach
twenty seven. The party was mainly
from the eastern district of Brooklyn,
and was known as the Crescent Yacht
Club. II was a nominal organization,
simply for the purposes of chowder
party or picnic, and in the depth OF
the grief and horror that the accident
has plunged its members, they are
scarcely able to tell the particulars
of the makeup of their own
party. The number Of invited guests,
known only to persons VINO ex-
tended the invitations. and not to
others, makes it impossible even yet to
give list of the passengers of the Ill
fated yacht. The best advices estimate
the whole load at thirty seven, and the
number of those saved is only ten. The
following is list of the lost up TO the
latest reports Lost-Michael Schwind,
blind accordeon-player, residence I'M
known; Mrs. Brsndall, Mrs. Louise
O'Bernier, of l4S Varet street, Brook
lyn, L. ID. (her husband John was in
one of the boats; frankie OBernier,
seven years old Lizzie O'Bernier, five
years old; Charles O'Bernier, two
years old Mrs. Weiss, of Bushwick ;
Mrs. Fargo, the daughter of Mrs.
Weiss; a child of Mrs. Fargo
Annie Baden, seventeen years old.
of II Morell street, Brooklyn, f. ID.
Phillip Lomberg, Freddy Lomberg. a
little girl Of the same family George
Kreing, eight years old, of Canarsie
Nicholas Scheedt, of De Kalb avenue
near Bushwick avenue; Captain ID.
Hendrickson, of Canarsie Henry Hen
erickson. nine years old, his son; two
young men, whose names are unknown
to the survivors, supposed to be james
Burgess and Mark Stark. There are
others missing and undoubtedly drown
ed, but as some of the people OF the
chowder party returned to Williams
last night their names could not he
ascertained at Canarsie. The sur
vivors and others of the club who
were on the other boats still
cling to hope, and speak of the
absent as missing, but Canarsie boat
men have no doubt that all are lost.
There is no room for the belief that
any rescues we're made beyond those
accomplished by the heroic work of a
colored sailor, Robinson. There were
women and children brought ashore
by the Edith Dean, Captain Rhode.
The description Of the accident and
circumstances of the rescues are told
alike by the crew and passengers of the
Dean and of those of the sloop Chris
tina, which was sailing almost in COM
pany with the Mystery. The Mystery
was rounding a point of the bar INTO
Yankee channel, and was well of so rs
to have a depth of fully forty feet
of water under her keel. The suppo-
sition that she may have taken ground
with her centre board is thus disposed
of. The captain of the Dean is very
positive on this point, although the
prevailing belief on shore on Sunday
night gave this as the cause of the mis-
hap. The accident was, therefore, the
result entirely OF a puff OF wind that
struck the full-sailed yacht at this crit.
cal point. She had just come about
and did not have enough headway t.
come up of herself, and the crosded
condition OF her decks prevented the
loosing Of the jib-sheets or the lower
ing OF the head sail in time to avert
the disaster.